Brush for cleaning travelers



UNTTED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. HOUGHTON, OF BLACKSTONE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRUSH FOR CLEANING TRAVELERS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 15,131, dated June 17, 18156.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, HENRY S. HoUGHToN, of Blackstone, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for Cleaning Ring Travelers of Spinning-Frames When in Motion; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and enact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the drawings herewith presented and to the letters marked thereon, in which- Figure l is a perspective View` of my cleaner as applied to a ring rail. Fig. 2 is an end view and Fig. 3 a view of the top, the same letters referring to the same parts in all.

My cleaner consists of a piece A. to hold the bristles Gr, forming a soft brush, and having slots B, B, for the screwsA D, D, which connect-it to the piece E whichn is made with two lips or projections F 4F to rest on the ring rail C. The pieces-are 'adjusted to such position in`regard to each other so that when thepiece .E is placed against the ring rail C the 'ends of`the brush shall be in such position as to be lightly hit by the traveler H in passing the front of each ring and catch the waste fibers without retarding the traveler but slightly if at all. The brush I is also attached to the piece E so as to clean the ring-rail. The operation of my cleaner is plain onplacing it as shown it Fig. 1 and passing it along the rail, the travelers cleaning themselves in the brush from all waste which is left behind in the brush, and the brush at the end cleaning the rail at the same time.

It is evident that whalebone or even clot-h in rolls or folds or other substances may be used instead of bristles to make the brush and that various forms of parts will be necessary to .adapt my cleaner to theV different forms and patterns of rails in spinners, which will suggest themselves to t-he mind at once as mere change of form.

My cleaner it will be seen .obviates the necessity of stopping the machine to clean the travelers (as is commonly done, picking off the waste by hand) and is only a very slight check to their'speed and that only for an instant, thus saving the power necessary to keep up their speed when any stationary cleaners are used as they must necessarily retard the motion of the traveler.

I do not claim the use of a brush to clean a throstle whether automatically operated or otherwise when the live or dead spindle alone are used, but

What I do claim as my invention and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is:

I claim the application of a brush when constructed and operated substantially as described, to the delicate movement of the ring traveler so as to rapidly clean t-he same without breaking down the thread.

H. S. HOUGHTON.

Witnesses:

L. LACKEY,

JAS. G. ARNOLD. 

